Camilla Horn
Camilla Horn | |
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Camilla Horn | |
Born |
Frankfurt am Main, Germany | April 25, 1903
Died |
August 14, 1996 93) Gilching, Germany | (aged
Occupation | Actress |
Camilla Horn (25 April 1903 – 14 August 1996) was a German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era. She starred in several Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions.
Biography
The daughter of a civil servant, Horn was educated as a dressmaker and worked at Erfurt. In 1925, together with Marlene Dietrich, she worked as an extra in the German film Madame Doesn't Want Any Children, and later she was seen in a musical review by director Alexander Korda. She made her great breakthrough in 1926, when she replaced Lillian Gish as "Gretchen" in F. W. Murnau's UFA production of Faust.
In 1928 she sailed for Hollywood, where she played opposite John Barrymore in Tempest and Eternal Love. She returned to Europe, and in the 1930s refused to follow the official line of the Nazis and was prosecuted for a monetary offense. After the war the British tribunal at Delmenhorst convicted her for minor offenses (among them travelling without permission) and she was imprisoned for three months at the women's prison in Vechta.
From 1930 until her retirement in 1953, she remained a screen favorite in German, British, and Italian films, and late in life, she was invited to make her screen comeback, in the 1987's Schloss Konigswald. She spent her old age at Herrsching, and died at Gilching near Starnberg, where she had lived during the last year of her life.
Between April 1972 and February 1973 a song was written about her by the then-unsigned Bruce Springsteen. This still-unreleased song surfaced in the 1990s on a bootleg, "Early Years".[1]
Awards
- 1987 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress
Filmography
- Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)
- Faust (1926)
- Tartuffe (1926)
- Madame Wants No Children (1926)
- The Bordellos of Algiers (1927)
- Eva and the Grasshopper (1927)
- The Tempest (1928)
- Three Around Edith (1929)
- The Royal Box (1929)
- You'll Be in My Heart (1930)
- The Great Longing (1930)
- Morals at Midnight (1930)
- Hans in Every Street (1930)
- Fundvogel (1930)
- Sunday of Life (1931)
- I Go Out and You Stay Here (1931)
- The Night Without Pause (1931)
- The Song of the Nations (1931)
- The Five Accursed Gentlemen (1931)
- Reckless Youth (1931)
- The Return of Raffles (1932)
- The Cheeky Devil (1932)
- Moral und Liebe (1933
- Rund um eine Million 1933)
- The Rakoczi March (1933)
- The Love Nest (1933)
- Matinee Idol (1933)
- The Double (1934)
- If I Were King (1934)
- The Luck of a Sailor (1934)
- The Big Chance (1934)
- The Last Waltz (1934)
- Ein Walzer für dich (1934)
- Ich sehne mich nach dir (1934)
- Der rote Reiter (1935)
- White Slaves (1937)
- Sein letztes Modell (1937)
- Crooks in Tails (1937)
- In geheimer Mission (1938)
- Red Orchids (1938)
- Travelling People (1938)
- Roman eines Arztes (1939)
- Zentrale Rio (1939)
- Polterabend (1940)
- Die keusche Geliebte (1940)
- Die letzte Runde (1940)
- Herz ohne Heimat (1940)
- Friedemann Bach (1941)
- Vertigine (1942)
- Paura d'amare (1942)
- Angelo del crepuscolo (1942)
- Seine beste Rolle (1944)
- Intimitäten (1948)
- Search for Majora (1949)
- Queen of the Arena (1952)
- Father Is Being Stupid (1953)
- Appointment in Beirut (1969)
- Wer weint denn schon im Freudenhaus? (1970)
- Immer bei Vollmond (1970)
- Der Unsichtbare (1987)
- Schloß Königswald (1988)